Bug 105631 - fglrx does not work for NIS users
Summary: fglrx does not work for NIS users
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: X11 3rd Party (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 2
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Minor
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Assignee: Stefan Dirsch
QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch
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Reported: 2005-08-18 17:11 UTC by Thomas Schmidt
Modified: 2005-08-18 17:16 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Schmidt 2005-08-18 17:11:07 UTC 
I installed fglrx as said in /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/README.SuSE.
When running as NIS user GL applications such as glxgears can't 
open /dev/dri/card0 because of the default permissions. 

tschmidt@bessel:~> l /dev/dri/card0
crw-rw----  1 root video 226, 0 2005-08-18 18:47 /dev/dri/card0

but I am not in the group video.
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-18 17:16:30 UTC 
You need to add your NIS users to the video group to allow 3D support. This is
mentioned in our manual since about some years (3D chapter) ...